In French, the phrase "force majeure" literally means "a greater force." The title of Eddie Izzard's latest and grandest comedy tour is thus well chosen. Few people can impersonate an angry turtle like Eddie Izzard.

I've been doing some binge reading lately -- books about creativity and business success -- but have come away feeling somewhat skeptical about their messages.
Ed Catmull's new book, titled "Creativity, Inc.," explains how, as the czar of Pixar, he...

Owen Wilson is expecting his second child!
"The Internship" actor is expecting the baby with personal trainer Caroline Lindqvist, Wilson's rep confirmed The Times Thursday.
The rep for the actor, who is already father to a little boy named Robert...

The studio behind the animated fantasies "Bambi," "Dumbo" and '"The Lion King" has a new kind of hero tale on the way — a Marvel Comics one. Walt Disney Animation Studios on Thursday announced plans to release "Big Hero 6," an action-comedy inspired...

Did you feel sad when the Miley Cyrus-hosted episode of "Saturday Night Live" ended a few weeks ago, knowing that you probably wouldn’t get to see the singer twerk or stick her tongue out on the show for another season? Well, Christmas came early...

BERKELEY — On the University of California campus recently, a tour guide told a group of prospective students about the many opportunities open to those studying in the Bay Area — "like getting an internship at Pixar," she said.
The Emeryville animation studio is four miles away, but that day Pixar was even closer than the tour guide knew — director Dan Scanlon and three of his colleagues were walking right behind her, on their way to Sather Gate, a bit of Beaux-Arts architecture...

Remember the days when Pixar meant perfection? When you could count on its animation to amaze, its stories to sweep you up?
Remember "Up"?
Or the smooth ride in "Cars"? The "Toy Story" pals whose friendship was anything but plastic? The love among the ruins unearthed by "Wall-E"? A clownfish dad's deep-sea desperation in "Finding Nemo"?
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What has happened to the memory makers who gave us all that?
They are nowhere to be found at "Monsters University," the latest shiny...

“Finding Dory” may be undergoing a sea change as Pixar is taking a page from a little-seen whale documentary.
The Walt Disney-owned animation studio is hard at work on "Finding Dory," a follow-up to the 2003 oceanic blockbuster "Finding Nemo." But this spring, after Pixar executives viewed "Blackfish," which raises sharp questions about the health of whales in captivity, the studio decided to make substantial changes to the "Dory" script.
According to Louie Psihoyos, who directed the...

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Pixar Animation has removed the director of its 2014 film, "The Good Dinosaur," and not named a replacement, marking the fourth time in eight movies that the Emeryville studio has made a director change midstream.
With the film's release date fast approaching and various creative choices unmade, Pixar executives decided to replace director Bob Peterson this summer, according to the studio's president, Ed Catmull.
"All directors get really deep in their films," Catmull said this week. "Sometimes you...

Owen Wilson has a new little intern to keep track of: The actor now has a second child.
Wilson, 45, and Caroline Lindqvist, welcomed their new baby boy on Thursday, his rep told People.
"I can confirm they had a baby boy on Thursday morning," the "Cars 2" actor's rep said in a statement.
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The floppy-haired actor, whose next projects include "A Night At the Museum 3" and the crime drama "Inherent Vice," is already father to Ford, 2, his son with ex-girlfriend Jane...

A decade after the titular superhero family of "The Incredibles" donned their spandex suits to save the day, Disney announced that its animation studio Pixar is working on a sequel to the Oscar-winning movie.
The sequel was announced by Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger during the company's annual shareholder meeting in Portland, Ore. Iger also revealed that Pixar is planning a third movie in the popular "Cars" franchise.
Written and directed by Brad Bird, "The Incredibles" tells of a...